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CATEGORIES;LANGUAGE=en-US:Columbia U
CONTACT:https://maisonfrancaise.columbia.edu/events/artificial-history-natu
ral-intelligence-thinking-machines-descartes-digital-age
DESCRIPTION: David Bates\, in conversation with
Stefanos Geroulano and Joanna Stalnaker We imagine that w
e are both in control of and controlled by our bodies—autonomous and yet a
utomatic. This entanglement\, according to David W. Bates\, emerged in the
seventeenth century when humans first built and compared themselves with
machines. Reading varied thinkers from Descartes to Kant to Turing\, Bates
reveals how time and time again technological developments offered new wa
ys to imagine how the body’s automaticity worked alongside the mind’s auto
nomy. Tracing these evolving lines of thought\, David Bates discusses his
new book\, An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence\, which
offers a new theorization of the human as a being that is dependent on tec
hnology and produces itself as an artificial automaton without a natural\,
outside origin. Stefa
nos Geroulanos is the Director of the Remarque Institute and Prof
essor of European Intellectual History at NYU. He usually writes about con
cepts that weave together modern understandings of time\, the human\, and
the body. His new book is a history of the concepts\, images\, and science
s of human origins since 1770\, forthcoming from Liveright Press as Th
e Invention of Prehistory: Empire\, Violence\, and Our Obsession with Huma
n Origins in 2024. Joanna Stalnaker<
/strong> is Professor of French at Columbia. She works on Enlightenment ph
ilosophy and literature\, with a recent interest in how women shaped the E
nlightenment. Her new book\, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philos
ophers Facing Death\, will be published by Yale University Press in t
he Walpole series.
\nDavid Bates is Professor of Rheto
ric at the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses on the
history of legal and political ideas\, and the relationship between techno
logy\, science\, and the history of human cognition.